The Freedom Tower?

by **newdamage** » Wed 29 Jun 2005, 16:23:09

From the Reuters article:

"The revised plan features a heavily reinforced concrete core, steel bars on every floor and a lobby set back from the street and draped in protective panels of titanium and stainless steel, designers said."

The first word that comes to mind is not "freedom" ...jail like, collossal waste of resources and taxes... let's see if this thing is finished when it's susposed to be in 2010.

by **I_Like_Plants** » Wed 29 Jun 2005, 16:24:48

They should just do a hologram of towers, someone tries to fly a plane into 'em, *whoosh* airball! Haha fooled 'em!

by **gnm** » Wed 29 Jun 2005, 16:30:28

Funny the twin towers had heavily reinforced concrete cores too...

-G

by **retro** » Wed 29 Jun 2005, 17:03:26

The replacement of the twin towers by some substitute is such a waste of energy and is in bad taste, imho. Like giving a kid a new puppy after their grandmother has died.

by **clv101** » Wed 29 Jun 2005, 17:04:30

I'm not so sure it'll be built: Freedom Tower wrt Peak Oil?

by **MicroHydro** » Wed 29 Jun 2005, 17:31:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', 'F')unny the twin towers had heavily reinforced concrete cores too...

-G

by **lawnchair** » Wed 29 Jun 2005, 19:45:56

I still think the Freedom Tower will be an abortion halfway through. To me, an eerie parallel to one of the most interesting skyscrapers in the world...

http://shapeofdays.typepad.com/the_shap ... _ho_1.html

105 storeys up, but uncompletable. Point it out to your North Korean tour guide, and she won't acknowledge it exists...

by **RonMN** » Wed 29 Jun 2005, 21:04:28

would you work in the 82nd floor of the freedom tower???

I'd be lookin' for a new job!

by **savethehumans** » Thu 30 Jun 2005, 00:13:09

Honey, anything over 5 stories tall is a no-no in my book. . .and floors 4 and 5 remain questionable to me! :shock:

by **Eli** » Thu 30 Jun 2005, 00:14:59

It does look like a huge monolithic jail.

Wonder how much it will cost when oil is 100 dollars a barrel and the east cost is running short on heating oil.

I would lay even money like others have said that it will never be finished.

by **BitterSweetCrude** » Thu 30 Jun 2005, 00:24:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RonMN', 'w')ould you work in the 82nd floor of the freedom tower???

I'd be lookin' for a new job!

by **advancedatheist** » Thu 30 Jun 2005, 00:50:51

This reminds me of George Orwell's description of "the Ministry of Love" in Nineteen Eighty-Four:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometre of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.

by **smallpoxgirl** » Thu 30 Jun 2005, 01:04:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('savethehumans', 'H')oney, anything over 5 stories tall is a no-no in my book. . .and floors 4 and 5 remain questionable to me! :shock:

by **Sys1** » Fri 01 Jul 2005, 10:56:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hey should just do a hologram of towers, someone tries to fly a plane into 'em, *whoosh* airball! Haha fooled 'em!

by **lotrfan55345** » Sun 03 Jul 2005, 20:17:01

Well... the hight supposedly will be surpassed by that new tower in Dubai (Burj Dubai i think its called). The Dubai one will probably be the one that will be built, since they have the oil

by **Barbara** » Mon 04 Jul 2005, 04:47:00

Lucky you to deal with Freedom Towers.
That AH of Berlusconi still stands firm to build the absurd bridge between Italy and Sicily... the longest bridge in the world of that kind (dunno in english), just to brings cars and trucks from Italy to the land of Mafia.

Big deal. with PO coming.

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